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The Hunter
July 26th, 2004, 03:55 PM
After years of losing business to Google, search rivals got some of that traffic back on Monday as Internet surfers sought alternatives to the Web's most popular search engine.

While an Internet worm hampered Google, AltaVista and Lycos, other search engines attracted surfers looking for another source of answers. The worm also targeted Yahoo, though many who said they couldn't reach Google found Yahoo working.

The outage of Google, in particular, caught many off guard.

"It usually works so well that I don't need any other service," said Chris Pieper, a Baltimore-based software professional. "Today it wouldn't work at all."

Baylor University student Jason Wood was searching for information for a class discussion on failed product attempts over the past 25 years when Google returned an error message. Jonathan Bruce was in San Francisco trying to search for articles on the Democratic National Convention and Google's plans for a stock offering when he got the error message as well. Bruce, like many, was forced to seek other ways of finding the information.

More info:http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5284130.html
Sk8er Boi
July 26th, 2004, 04:57 PM
It went down???? I never noticed anything and I was using it all day long.
shawners
July 26th, 2004, 05:00 PM
why does it have to always be about google.. Let them live.
mountain_rage
July 26th, 2004, 05:18 PM
Worked for me, maybe it was just one branch of google. Because their google.ca, google.com, google.fr etc etc etc
wonderboy2005
July 26th, 2004, 05:58 PM
It was working fine for me all day...
mischka23
July 26th, 2004, 06:04 PM
High ya,

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:)
Wolfie
July 26th, 2004, 06:52 PM
I wonder how cpu is dealing with this? ;)
Kyle06
July 26th, 2004, 07:00 PM
I wonder how cpu is dealing with this? ;)


Well he has not responded yet so will someone please call a medic
Wolfie
July 26th, 2004, 07:20 PM
Well he has not responded yet so will someone please call a medic

we might be too late.


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Kyle06
July 26th, 2004, 07:22 PM
damn it MEDIC lol
shawners
July 26th, 2004, 07:26 PM
I heard the medics got there, and it was too late.. The screwdriver was shoved in his head, suicide style =(
Kyle06
July 27th, 2004, 02:41 PM
That's sad... but it's prolly just time to update the cpu anyways =)
CCSDUDE
July 27th, 2004, 03:26 PM
Worked for me, maybe it was just one branch of google. Because their google.ca, google.com, google.fr etc etc etc

It's all the same, those DNS's are just routed through to their hosting.

It did go down all over...I was using Google.kr and it died once. Thats all..one time. A "Bad request error" with some debug code and googles copyright on the bottom with a funky TVLand like google logo up top.